Results for "Wilton Gaynair"

NEWS: RECORDING May 15, 2017

Wilton Gaynair: Blue Bogey

Jamaica in the 1950s and '60s produced many great jazz musicians. The list includes Monty Alexander, Don Shirley, Harold McNair, Montego Joe, Dizzy Reece and Ralph McDonald. But the list is long, and there were many others with whom you may be less familiar. One of them is Wilton “Bogey" Gaynair, a mighty tenor saxophonist with ...
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ARTICLE: BUILDING A JAZZ LIBRARY July 5, 2016

Jazz From Around The World: Latin America and the Caribbean

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

The focus of the second installment of Jazz from Around the World is Latin America and the Caribbean. Because of both proximity to the US and the shared African heritage, particularly in the Caribbean, jazz was seamlessly and naturally adopted in this part of the world. Of course Latin jazz with its many guises is a ...

ARTICLE: RECORD LABEL PROFILE March 5, 2014

Sonorama: Putting the Past in the Future

By JAKOB BAEKGAARD

It takes a collector to know what a collector wants. Ekkehart Fleischhammer who runs the German reissue label Sonorama has been in the record business since 2004, but he has spent far more time enjoying and searching for music. His own expertise and sense of quality is the foundation for Sonorama Records whose specialty is the ...